Kidney removal waiting times in Australian public hospitals
The national median wait for kidney removal in Australian public hospitals was 30 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). Hospital medians ranged from 7 days at Queensland Children's Hospital to 97 days at Mater Adult Hospital. The source publishes this surgery as "Nephrectomy".
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.
Across Australia, the median wait for kidney removal in public hospitals was 30 days in 2024–25, from 2721 surgeries. 0.6% of people waited more than 365 days. 57 public hospitals published a median wait for it.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Nephrectomy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
State by state
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 30 days marks the national median.
Victoria: 26 days
South Australia: 28 days
Queensland: 30 days
New South Wales: 36 days
Western Australia: 37 days
Northern Territory: not published
Tasmania: not published
| Rank | State or territory | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Victoria | 26 days | 0.0% | 746 surgeries |
| 2 | South Australia | 28 days | 2.8% | 253 surgeries |
| 3 | Queensland | 30 days | 0.2% | 593 surgeries |
| 4 | New South Wales | 36 days | 0.8% | 746 surgeries |
| 5 | Western Australia | 37 days | 0.4% | 280 surgeries |
| unranked | Northern Territory | not published | not published | 22 surgeries |
| unranked | Tasmania | not published | not published | 81 surgeries |
Ranked by area: near the Adelaide CBD · near Camperdown · near Clayton · near Liverpool · near Nedlands · near Randwick · and 1 more area on the state pages.
How the wait has changed
- Australia
- VIC
- SA
- QLD
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Australia (days) | VIC (days) | SA (days) | QLD (days) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 26 | 23 | not published | 25 |
| 2017–18 | 27 | 23 | 34 | 27 |
| 2018–19 | 28 | 23 | 30 | 28 |
| 2019–20 | 28 | 22 | 32 | 29 |
| 2020–21 | 29 | 23 | 44 | 30 |
| 2021–22 | 28 | 22 | 29 | 28 |
| 2022–23 | 30 | 23 | 30 | 30 |
| 2023–24 | 32 | 23 | 29 | 31 |
| 2024–25 | 30 | 26 | 28 | 30 |
Common questions
How long is the wait for kidney removal in a public hospital?
The national median was 30 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). Half of people waited less than that, half waited longer. State medians ranged from 26 days in Victoria to 37 days in Western Australia.
Which public hospital has the shortest wait for kidney removal?
Of the 57 public hospitals that published a median for 2024–25, Queensland Children's Hospital reported the shortest median, 7 days, and Mater Adult Hospital the longest, 97 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). A shorter median is not a recommendation. How to read these figures.
How many people waited more than a year?
0.6% of people who had kidney removal in an Australian public hospital in 2024–25 waited more than 365 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).
Cite this page
The national median wait for kidney removal in Australian public hospitals was 30 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).
Copy-ready citation
Surgery Waits, "Kidney removal waiting list by state, 2024–25", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/nephrectomy/, accessed 28 May 2026.Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/nephrectomy/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.
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<img src="https://surgerywaits.au/charts/nephrectomy.svg" width="720" height="318" alt="Median public hospital waiting time for Kidney removal by state and territory, 2024–25">What is not here
Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.
The source calls this collection "elective surgery". This site calls it planned surgery, because the surgery is planned in advance rather than optional — the methodology explains the wording.